On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:17:02 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Jan Lahoda has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
>> commit since the last revision:
>>
>> Fixing test for Console.readln/readLine, ensuring the proper methods are
>> called.
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/Console.java line 184:
>
>> 182: */
>> 183: @PreviewFeature(feature = PreviewFeature.Feature.IMPLICIT_CLASSES)
>> 184: public Console println() {
>
> Hello Jan, with the introduction of the simplified `java.io.IO` class, some
> of whose APIs are wrappers around the `java.io.Console` class APIs, it's
> understandable that we will start seeing new methods being introduced on the
> `Console` class.
>
> For this specific new `println()` method on the `Console` class, do you think
> this method will/should be introduced irrespective of the `IO` class usage?
> In other words, considering a theoretic case where there may be a situation
> to abandon the implicit classes preview feature or do it in a different way,
> would we still want this `println()` method to stay on the `Console`? If yes,
> then perhaps we should drop the `@PreviewFeature` annotation from this new
> method and introduce it as a regular new API? Same question for the new
> `readln()` method on the `Console`.
I don't think this PR is the right place to add the methods permanently to
`Console`. I am not objecting to that, but it seems the if those would be added
independently of `java.io.IO`, it needs a separate discussion and decision. And
I believe that, if needed, that should be done outside of and independently on
the framework of `java.io.IO` and JEP 495, as both of these are preview
features.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21693#discussion_r1822515952
